Apologies for the confusion, the detection stat is not a range in km, but a strength rating. Sensor detection is essentially how well you can 'hear' the signatures emitted by other ships. There's no hard range because if a ship is emitting a large signal, it can be detected further away. Hope this clarifies!

Edinstein wrote:Apologies for the confusion, the detection stat is not a range in km, but a strength rating. Sensor detection is essentially how well you can 'hear' the signatures emitted by other ships. There's no hard range because if a ship is emitting a large signal, it can be detected further away. Hope this clarifies!

so a shield strength rating of 9.9 used on a target ship with an EM signature of 1.0 would result in a detection range of 9.9 km?

Edinstein wrote:Apologies for the confusion, the detection stat is not a range in km, but a strength rating. Sensor detection is essentially how well you can 'hear' the signatures emitted by other ships. There's no hard range because if a ship is emitting a large signal, it can be detected further away. Hope this clarifies!

so a shield strength rating of 9.9 used on a target ship with an EM signature of 1.0 would result in a detection range of 9.9 km?

Hi CalicoJack,

The result of a sensor detection check depends upon many variables.

We determine a distance factor between the two ships (inverse of distance squared) that gets multiplied by the other ships signature and your detection rating. That is multiplied by additional parameters (sensor dish orientation / sector conditions / power levels / etc). The higher the result the better signal is received and if the signal is above a threshold you will then be able to detect them.